Photographer from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Dzenad Dzino, in an incredible adventure, found the remains of a British RAF Wellington military plane from the Second World War that crashed in Cvrsnica.
He revealed the details of the adventure in a video he shared on YouTube, and at the very beginning, Dzino emphasized that this was supposed to be “just hiking”, but it turned into “one incredible story” worth watching.
“After I published the video for the Battle of the Neretva, one message caught my eye. The information I received from Zadar – a man asked me if I knew anything about a plane that crashed in the territory of Jablanica during the Second World War and is suspected to be on to one of the Jablanica mountains. He also sent me a photo of a British Spitfire that crashed somewhere in Jablanica on October 12th, 1944,” he said at the beginning of the video.
One of the most famous Greek pilots was on that plane, and Dzino revealed how he immediately started searching for information and clues about the plane.
“In Dreznica, I found out that the plane fell on Cvrsnica near Plocno peak and that people then found it, took aluminum from it,” he said, and revealed that he continued to investigate as far as Blidinje lake and that the search for information lasted five months.
The video shows his ascent to Cvrsnica, and then the discovery of the sheet that was on the plane’s engine. Along the way, he came across more parts of the plane – wooden propellers, levers and various metal parts, and then ammunition.
In addition to parts of the plane, he also found human bones that probably belong to the pilot and crew members. He called the British Embassy, which directed him to contact the local police. In three days, an arrival at the place of the plane crash was organized in order to carry out an investigation.
It turned out that the plane that was found was not a Spitfire, but a bomber that crashed in Cvrsnica in some night action. It is a Wellington plane, which is one of four such models that disappeared in the territory of Yugoslavia during the Second World War, and all five crew members died.
“My greatest wish now is to return the found ring and the cat figurine to the pilot’s family,” he said at the end, Klix.ba reports.
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